Guatemala City, March 19 (UP) –
United States long-range bombers, fighter planes, pilots and soldiers are stationed in Guatemala, 750 miles north of the Panama Canal, it was revealed today.
The bombers, of the four-motored fortress type, patrol far out into the Pacific on the west and into the Caribbean Sea on the east. The soldiers and the fighter planes are in Guatemala to protect the airfield.
Copyrighted dispatch tells of dramatic trip from Bataan
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Washington, March 19 {AP) –
The Navy announced today that a Yugoslavian freighter, the Trepča, had been torpedoed off the Atlantic coast and that a large Norwegian merchant vessel, otherwise unidentified, had been torpedoed off the southeast United States coast.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, March 19 (UP) –
Army and naval officials, revealing that an American submarine had performed “an unusual hazardous mission” in enemy-controlled waters, awarded silver stars to 69 officers and crewmen and the Distinguished Service Cross to 39-year-old Lt. Cdr. Frank W. Fenno, of Williamsport, Pa., the skipper.
The decorations were presented in ceremonies aboard the submarine with Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pacific Fleet, declaring the exploit:
….evidence of the fine cooperation, which exists between armed services in this area.
The nature of the mission was not disclosed, but Fenno’s decoration was awarded by direction of President Roosevelt ”or extraordinary heroism.”
New United Nations Commander in Southwest Pacific pranced all over dignity of old-line officers as a ‘soldier’s soldier’
By Frank I. Weller
Editor’s note:
How Douglas MacArthur defied Army tradition and still proved himself “a soldier’s soldier” is told by Frank I. Weller in the second of four Wide World articles on the new Supreme Commander of the United Nations forces in the Southwest Pacific.
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Reading Eagle (March 20, 1942)
Allies to carry war to Tokyo, new Burma chief says; foe hits New Guinea
By the United Press
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War Office discloses 15 officers and men escorted MacArthur
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Plans not ready for mobilization program, President says
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Accelerated war production program starting to tax domestic and foreign transportation facilities, U.S. legislators report
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Washington, March 20 (AP) –
President Roosevelt is going to register, along with other Americans 45-64 years old, inclusive, on April 27.
Even though he is commander-in-chief of the armed forces and technically not required to register, he told a press conference he intended to do so anyway. At 60, he is well within the age limits.
U.S. Navy Department (March 21, 1942)
Far East.
Early this month, the U.S. gunboat Asheville was attacked by the enemy south of Java.
The Asheville has been reported missing for some days and must be presumed to be lost. The next of kin of the personnel of the Asheville have been notified.
Reading Eagle (March 21, 1942)
Japanese fleet reported approaching southwest coast of Australia
By the United Press
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Spring – supposedly sprightly Spring, with a capital S – stole in a not-so-scintillating style today.
As if that alliteration were not enough, the weather bureau predicted there would be the hissing sound of rain tonight, accompanied by some rise in temperature.
The season of new hats and new topcoats – and new license plates – arrived officially at 2:11 a.m., when to earthbound observers who were awake and in the right places, the sun appeared directly over the equator. Summer starts at 9:17 p.m. on June 21, when the sun appears to stop its northward trip.
Most nonchalant about the pretty lady’s arrival were the robins, which have been skipping around…